Plato's vague indications of the time of the events (more than 9,000 years before his time ) and the alleged location of Atlantis ('beyond the Pillars of Hercules') gave rise to much pseudoscientific speculation. Donnelly in his Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. On the other hand, nineteenth-century amateur scholars misinterpreted Plato's narrative as historical tradition, most famously Ignatius L. The allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Thomas More's Utopia.

ĭespite its minor importance in Plato's work, the Atlantis story has had a considerable impact on literature. Since Plato describes Athens as resembling his ideal state in the Republic, the Atlantis story is meant to bear witness to the superiority of his concept of a state. After an ill-fated attempt to conquer 'Ancient Athens,' Atlantis falls out of favor with the deities and submerges into the Atlantic Ocean.

In the story, Atlantis is described as a naval empire that ruled all Western parts of the known world, making it the literary counter-image of the Achaemenid Empire. Atlantis ( Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, romanized: Atlantìs nêsos, lit.'island of Atlas') is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations.

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